In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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It's just... I haven't had an earthquake out here so far, so it's been great.

就是……我到这里以来目前还没有经历过地震，所以很棒。

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Can you tell us anything you remember from when a big earthquake happened?

你还记得发生大地震时的情况吗？

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